As a matter of fact, this is what the Japanese government and base camp want, and now that the war has been going on, they know very well that the support of the people is indispensable to winning this war. Before the start of the war, the Japanese government did not consider the public opinion, because at that time they did not think that this was a war for the whole country and the nation, and the Japanese government was very sure of destroying China within three months, so they believed that the strategic goal could be achieved by relying on the strength of the government alone.

However, as the war fell into a stalemate, especially after the Battle of Wuhan, China and Japan entered a state of confrontation, and the Japanese government deeply realized that although China was weak, the emaciated camel was bigger than a horse, and it was still not something that they could completely defeat in a short period of time. This is not just a war between countries, it is a showdown between the Yamato nation and the Chinese nation, the victor is strong and the people are strong, and the loser will be completely reduced to a prisoner.

The scale of the war is constantly expanding, and it is far beyond the control of the Japanese government, and the Japanese government can only accept it either actively or passively. The Chinese would rather die than surrender, and the Americans are aggressive, and there is a great tendency to join forces with the Chinese to attack Japan.

As the international situation continues to deteriorate, the Japanese Government is well aware of the importance of mobilizing the will of the people, and in the view of the Japanese Government, as long as the entire "100 million" people in Japan support the government and the army, then the war will certainly be won. The incident in southern Hebei has just given the Japanese government an opportunity, and it stands to reason that what Hyotaro Kimura has done is indeed despicable. However, under the authorization of the government, the Japanese media, which had been thoroughly fascist, simply touted him as a national idol and a hero of the Yamato nation.

After that, the Japanese government informed the Japanese people of Chen Feng's warning word for word, with the aim of inciting the anger of the Japanese people and then pulling all the people into the chariot of the war of aggression.

The Japanese government's ruse succeeded, and at the strong demand of the Japanese people, the government and the military headquarters responded quickly, agreeing that the troops could act in the occupied areas without being influenced by any factors. The main purpose is to achieve the final victory of the war.

This is tantamount to openly supporting the Japanese invading forces in using Chinese civilians in the occupied areas as meat shields. At the same time, it can also be assumed that the Japanese Government was responsible for all the acts of the army in the occupied territories.

The Japanese government's response immediately caused an uproar in the world, and the people and high-level leaders of all countries were surprised by the Japanese government's public shamelessness, but they were helpless to do anything about it. After all, this is Japan's internal affair. No one else has the right to meddle at all.

After reading the response of the Japanese government. Chen Feng was furious and convened an emergency military meeting in Datong that night, at which it was decided that the Eighth Theater urgently increased three infantry divisions to southern Hebei. In addition, the elite of the Northern Air Force was immediately dispatched to form a long-range strategic bombing unit to carry out the most severe punitive bombing of Japanese military installations in Northeast China, Korea, and Taiwan.

In addition, Chen Feng also called Yehelina and ordered her to immediately strike at the Japanese puppet army in the northeast. It would be great to mobilize the anti-Japanese sentiment of the people in the northeast, and it would be great if a strong force could be raised in the northeast region.

Soon, the 1st, 4th, and 5th divisions of the Eighth Theater were quickly assembled and rushed to southern Hebei, and so far, the army of the Eighth Theater in southern Hebei has reached 5 integrated divisions, 1 armored division, 3 artillery brigades, and some technical arms, with a total strength of 180,000.

At the same time that Chen Feng's troops increased to southern Hebei, in the Shandong battlefield, the Eighth Route Army suffered a major blow from the Japanese army, and more than 50,000 Eighth Route Army was sandwiched in the Zaozhuang area by two divisions and one mixed brigade of the Japanese army, after four days and five nights of fierce fighting, although the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses, it still failed to break through the encirclement of the Japanese army, which made several bigwigs of the Eighth Route Army headquarters extremely uneasy.

This time the Eighth Route Army was planted, before they had always given full play to the strengths of guerrilla warfare, attacking the Japanese puppet army with small troops, accumulating small victories into big victories, even if the Japanese puppet army hated them to the bone, but because they could not find them, the Japanese army could only hate them, but there was no way at all.

But this time it was different, in order to open up the base areas of Luxi and Lunan, and also to open up new revolutionary base areas, the Eighth Route Army unprecedentedly concentrated more than 50,000 troops to besiege the important city where the Japanese army was stationed, but unexpectedly fell into the conspiracy of the Japanese puppet army.

As a last resort, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army had no choice but to order the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Jin. Bo Cheng's troops quickly assembled, and then urgently drove to Shandong to reinforce the trapped Eighth Route Army. At the same time, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army asked for help like Chen Feng's department, hoping that he could send a strong army to Shandong urgently.

Chen Feng quickly responded to the telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army asking for help, and immediately ordered Xu Fufu's detachment outside Xingtai to send an infantry brigade to attack eastward, and the troops were directed at Heze, an important town in western Luxi.

After receiving the information that Chen Feng's headquarters continued to increase troops in southern Hebei and attacked Shandong, the Japanese North China Front was greatly shocked, and the development of the battle situation became more and more unexpected for the Japanese army. In order to ensure the security of the occupied areas in southern Hebei and Shandong, the North China Front Army Command immediately made a decision and ordered the 109th Division, the 10th Mixed Brigade, the 9th Tank Brigade, the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 12th Mountain Artillery Brigade, the 1st, 5th, and 9th Divisions of the North China Public Security Army, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and the 8th Brigade to immediately go south to reinforce southern Hebei.

With the continuous southward movement of Japanese reinforcements, the scale of the battle in southern Hebei became larger and larger at this time, and for a time there were battles everywhere in southern Hebei, and the sound of guns and cannons could be heard everywhere. Only the Xingtai front line is still quiet, because Kimura Hyotaro has always been unwilling to release people, Chen Feng's troops did not dare to launch an attack, so the Xingtai front line rarely fell into peace. However, this calm was only temporary, and Chen Feng would never allow the Japanese army to threaten him with Chinese civilians.

On November 20, Guisui Airport was busy, with behemoths quietly parked on the airport's tarmac, while ground crews were constantly transporting ammunition to fighter planes.

In the large conference room of the Northern Air Force, Liu Nijia was making the most difficult war mobilization for the pilots, and saw the youngest Air Force lieutenant general in the world standing straight on the podium. He impassionedly said to all the pilots: "Today is a day worthy of the lifelong memory of each and every one of us, because today it is the first time that our first long-range strategic bombing unit in China's history has participated in actual combat. Our commander-in-chief, despite the busy fighting on the front lines and his wife who is about to give birth, has come to see you off in person. This is the highest level of encouragement, but also the highest level of combat mobilization, and I would like to invite Chen Feng, commander of the Eighth Theater of the Republic of China, chairman of Saibei Province, and first-class general of the army, to speak for you! ”

"Bang Bang!" The conference room burst into fierce applause!

Chen Feng strode up to the rostrum, saluted all the officers and men of the Air Force, and then said loudly: "Hello, soldiers! ”

"Hello sir!" All the officers and soldiers in the conference room replied in unison.

"Good. Very good. There is a little bit of the spirit of the Northern Air Force. I am so happy to see your energetic faces! Because what stood in front of me was not a group of ordinary people, but a group of soldiers in military uniforms. Soldiers, remember. When you say goodbye to your hometown, goodbye to your parents. When you put on this green uniform. You are not a common man. It's a glorious military man! ”

"Soldiers! I believe that this word may be vague in your concept. But I'll tell you right now what a soldier is! ”

"Either a person in a military uniform is a soldier, and a person with a gun is a soldier. A true soldier is a group of people with a lot of passion. Passionate men with ambitions and aspirations; is a group of real men who have a righteous spirit and stand up at critical moments, but there is no impassioned and indignant man; It is a group of good men with a resolute character, selfless dedication, and deep burial of their thoughts and concerns for their relatives; It is a group of our brothers and sisters who have a strong backbone and a strong body, who sacrificed their lives and forgot their lives when the motherland was in danger and the people needed it. ”

"In the face of the national crisis and the suffering of the masses, they did not hesitate to choose to use their bodies to stand in the forefront. Genuine military personnel have taken the needs of the motherland and the people as their own responsibility, and this is a natural combination of responsibility and obligation. Putting on that military uniform, they chose to pay silently. When the fathers and villagers need it, the soldiers should use their bodies that are not necessarily majestic but extremely strong to build an indestructible Great Wall of flesh and blood, without rhetoric and even anger and complaints. ”

Then, Chen Feng's voice changed and said: "Every recruit comes to join the army for a variety of reasons. Some are for promotion and fortune, some are for realizing their personal ideals, and some are just for a full meal! I know the way,

Not everyone comes to join the army willingly, but it doesn't matter, what I want to tell you is: the army, you are welcome! ”

"The army is a melting pot and the best university, and when you put on military uniforms, bring military ranks, and equip steel guns, you are China's armed forces, and you are a glorious group ready to sacrifice for the country and the people at any time. Soldiers, are you ready? ”

"Always ready to !!"

"Soldiers, are you ready to go into battle?"

"Always ready to !!"

"Soldiers, are you ready to sacrifice yourselves for the country and the people?"

"Always ready to !!"

"Okay, today is the first battle of your strategic bombing force, and I, Chen Feng, wish you a victory! I'm here to hear from you! ”

"Rest assured, sir! Swear to complete the mission!! ”

"Let's go!"

After the shrill siren sounded, the well-dressed pilots strode out of the conference room and ran towards their respective fighters. After a while, under the dispatch of the ground command center, one strategic bomber after another quickly rose into the air, thinking about their predetermined combat areas.

A total of 183 B47 strategic bombers participated in the operation, divided into three combat groups, each with 61 fighters.

This time, the strategic bombers bombed three targets, one was Port Arthur in the northeast, one was Pyongyang in North Korea, and the other was Pusan. In fact, after Chen Feng heard such shameless remarks by the Japanese government, his first thought was to immediately retaliate, and the most painful thing for the Japanese was the bombing of the Japanese mainland, so Chen Feng's first thought was to immediately send a strategic bomber group to carry out a large-scale bombing of the Japanese mainland, preferably a carpet bombing.

But as soon as this idea came up, Chen Feng pressed it, and the idea was certainly very tempting. But there is one issue that cannot be avoided. That is, when Japan learned that Chen Feng's unit had a long-range bomber that could directly attack the Japanese mainland, would Japan dare to start a war with the United States?

This problem cannot be ignored, and if Japan does not dare to go to war with the United States because of this, the problem will be serious. Therefore, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Chen Feng did not only carry out air raids on the Japanese mainland for the time being.

The bombing of Port Arthur and North Korea does not have such concerns, after all, Arthur is still Chinese territory, and the Korean Peninsula is also close to Chinese mainland, and ordinary bombers can bomb these targets with the range of ordinary bombers, such as the American B10 bombers and the Soviet Tu series bombers. The bombing of these targets did not cause panic among the Japanese. However, it can effectively deter the Japanese government.

Port Arthur. As the largest port in East Asia, Lushun's geographical location is extremely important, and the Japanese have long coveted it. As early as the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese had waged a war of aggression against Lushun. November 21, 1894. The darkest day in the history of the Qing Dynasty. On this day. The Qing government spent tens of millions of silver taels. Lushunkou, an important base of the Beiyang Naval Division, which has been painstakingly operated for 16 years, together with more than 20 batteries and docks, facilities, military storage materials, and so on. All of them fell into the hands of the invading Japanese army in one day, and more than 2,000 Qing officers and soldiers died in the battle.

After the invading Japanese army captured the Lushun Pass, which was known as the "first fortress in East Asia" at that time, they carried out a four-day and three-night extermination massacre on the Lushun Peninsula, brutally and brutally killing more than 20,000 innocent Lushun people, and only 36 people who participated in the burial of the corpses survived.

As for the Lushun Massacre, which shocked the world by the Japanese army invading China, perhaps because the Japanese army deliberately covered up and concealed it, or because the news was artificially sealed for a long time, the historical tragedy of the Lushun Massacre is rarely known to the world.

However, because the national strength of the Japanese was not very strong at that time, after they occupied Lushun, they made a feint to intervene in the alliance with the German, French and other powers of Tsarist Russia, and the Japanese were forced to return to Lushun, and then it was forcibly "leased" by Tsarist Russia for seven years.

In 1904, Tsarist Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese invaded Lushun again. In 1937, the Japanese invasion of China was "VII. Before and after the "Seven Incidents", the Japanese army transported tens of thousands of troops from Lushun with a large number of ships, which led to the fall of the vast area of North China and the great humiliation of Port Arthur.

Until now, Port Arthur is still the busiest foreign port of the Japanese army, and a Japanese fleet is stationed here all year round. On the one hand, it was used to escort merchant ships from northeastern China to and from Japan, and more importantly, to monitor the Soviet Far East Fleet in case it attacked the puppet state of Manchukuo.

On this day, Lushunkou is still as usual, the dock is already crowded with people early in the morning, because since the Japanese invaded Lushunkou, the wharf has become the only chance for everyone in the city to live, only here do more labor is needed, although the daily wage is only enough to buy a few catties of black noodles, but in order to survive, the people of Lushun can only suffer silently.

To the frustration of the common people of Lushun, the port was blocked by Japanese dwarves today, and the person in charge told them that the port would not open until the afternoon.

People who beg for a living can only sigh and go back, they have been here for so long, and they also know some of the rules of the Japanese. Today must be the arrival of Japanese warships, these Japanese warships have to dock once every other week, mainly to replenish some daily necessities, in addition to some valuable materials directly to the warships, and then use the warships to transport back to the Japanese mainland. Often at this time, the port is blocked to prevent sabotage by the Chinese.

However, just as the Lushun people who were begging for a living returned to the city to find work, there was a sudden low humming sound in the sky, and everyone involuntarily raised their heads, wanting to see what was going on in the sky.

Although Lushunkou is a military town, there is no air force stationed here, and few Japanese planes will arrive here, so many people have never seen an airplane, let alone know that the unique humming sound of Lushunkou is the sound of an aircraft engine.

Ordinary people don't know, but the Japanese army is no stranger to this kind of voice, and many people guess that there must be a plane that arrived over Lushun. However, no one cared, after all, as the strongest fortress of the Japanese army, Lushunkou was not weak in defense, and ordinary aircraft were very destructive to Lushun.

More importantly, Lushun is close to the sea, the easternmost part of the puppet Manchukuo, and there has been no war here for decades, let alone an attack, so the Japanese do not think that it was an air attack by enemy aircraft, and the vast majority of Japanese people thought that their own planes were coming.

However, then they were horrified to find that a huge number of warplanes suddenly appeared in the clouds in the sky that they had never seen before, and then one after another special aerial bombs fell from the planes, targeting the city defense facilities and port facilities on the ground at the Port of Arthur, and of course, the most important targets were the Japanese warships anchored in the port.

The fighters bombed this time were new fighters that the Japanese had never seen, and the tactics were also unprecedented for the Japanese; no matter which country's air force bombed the targets before, it was chaotic, and although they were owed to designate some specific areas for bombing, the bombing effect was not the same because of the influence of bombing techniques.

But this time it was different, I saw dozens of huge bombers bombing the port area intensively in formation, and the aerial bombs fell on the port and the fortifications of the Arthur fortress as if they didn't want money. The entire bombing process lasted for more than 40 minutes, during which the Japanese port garrison also counterattacked the bomber group, but the effect was minimal. After Chen Feng's bomber group retreated, the entire port was in shambles. (To be continued......)

PS: I just came back from Baotou today, and due to snow, I was stuck on the road for a long time, so the update was late, please forgive me! In addition, tonight is the big one in this chapter.,Reply to two updates tomorrow.。 Although it is said that there is only one chapter, it has more than 5,000 words! Xie Lu thanked everyone for their support!!